Participants and Alumni

First FOCUS cohort on campus during the inaugural Summer Institute held July 2019.

Upcoming Opportunities to Participate

The FOCUS Program is currently recruiting its 2021-2022 participants. Submit your pre-application to the PRIDE Coordination Core by March 1, 2021.


Francisco Contijoch, PhD UC San Diego	Cerrone Foster, PhD East Tennessee State University	Miguel Lopez-Ramirez, PhD UC San Diego	Mariela Mendez, PhD Henry Ford Hospital	Joshua Muia, PhD Oklahoma State University

Sonya Neal, PhD UC San Diego	Candice Price, PhD UC Davis	Paola Rosas, MD, PhD University of Illinois at Chicago	Elsie Ross, MD Stanford University	Daniela Valdez-Jasso, PhD UC San Diego


Oscar Abilez, MD, PhD Stanford University	Francisco Altamirano, PhD Houston Methodist Research Institute	Francisco Alvarado, PharmD, PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison	Irene Cal y Mayor Turnbull, MD Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Kristine DeLeon-Pennell, PhD Medical University of South Carolina	Demetria McNeal, PhD University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus	Sam Senyo, PhD Case Western Reserve University	Nathaly Sweeney, MD UC San Diego

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